The week
One episode, cut five ways.
- MonHero video5–8 min, plus the site page and Substack post
- TueShort 1the signature animation
- Wednothing ships
- ThuShort 2one zoom level
- Frinothing ships
- SatShort 3the recap diagram
- Sunnothing ships
A new explainer every Monday
How engineering actually works, one visual at a time.
Five to eight minutes on one system, from the git push to the chip fab. Animated, sourced, and built to make it click.
Now in production · Episode 01
How a git push reaches production →Season one · 12 episodes
The first quarter.
EP 01Cold open ready
How a git push reaches production
A commit traveling through CI stages to live servers
How it's builtNov 2
EP 02Not started
How an LLM generates one token
Probability bars collapsing into a single token
How it's builtNov 9
EP 03Not started
How DNS finds a website
A query hopping resolver → root → TLD → authoritative
How it's builtNov 16
EP 04Not started
How a chip is made, wafer to package
Zoom from a 300mm wafer down to one transistor
How it's madeNov 23
EP 05Not started
How a CDN serves you from nearby
A request rerouted from a distant origin to the nearest edge
How it's builtNov 30
EP 06Not started
How an AI coding agent edits your repo
The context window filling as the agent reads files
Agentic engineeringDec 7
EP 07Not started
How a payment moves a dollar
One dollar hopping card network, issuer and acquirer
How it's builtDec 14
EP 08Not started
How a reusable rocket engine is tested
Cutaway of a turbopump spinning up on the test stand
How it's madeDec 21
EP 09Not started
How one CrowdStrike update took down 8.5M PCs
One bad file fanning out to millions of blue screens
Why it brokeDec 28
EP 10Not started
How a database index finds one row
B-tree descent racing a full table scan
How it's builtJan 4
EP 11Not started
How a humanoid robot keeps its balance
Center of mass moving inside the support polygon
How it's madeJan 11
EP 12Not started
How Wi-Fi turns data into radio waves
Bits becoming points on a modulation constellation
How it's builtJan 18
The mix
Mostly software, with hardware and failure in the rotation.
- How it's builtSoftware systems: deploys, databases, networks, payments, LLMs.
- How it's madeHardware: chips, rockets, robots, batteries.
- Agentic engineeringCoding agents, MCP, context windows.
- Why it brokePublic outages and engineering failures.